New Article Now Out in Media, Culture & Society: A Primary Definer Online: the Construction and Propagation of a Think Tank’s Authority on Social Media

New Article Now Out in Media, Culture & Society: A Primary Definer Online: the Construction and Propagation of a Think Tank’s Authority on Social Media

This project was an opportunity to explore a puzzle that I’ve been pondering during many years of watching political coverage in the UK, but especially since the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession:

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Workshop on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns, Washington DC, July 1-3

Workshop on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns, Washington DC, July 1-3

A quick note to update you on the (invitation-only) workshop that Jennifer Stromer-Galley and I are running in Washington next week on the theme of Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns. This is part of the preparation for a special issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics, which Jennifer and I will edit.

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My new book The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power—now available

My new book The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power—now available

This is the culmination of a research project stretching back more than four years, though my thinking on hybridity in organisations goes back further—to early 2005. With this new book, however, I have tried to use hybridity as a bigger concept for explaining how the systemic interdependence among older and newer media logics now shapes many different aspects of political life.

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